diff --git a/SOURCES/1001-balance-mkfs-Disable-raid56-modes.patch b/SOURCES/1001-balance-mkfs-Disable-raid56-modes.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fd11f19
--- /dev/null
+++ b/SOURCES/1001-balance-mkfs-Disable-raid56-modes.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,100 @@
+From 349ea14a32ab63555cff47440f178ed01870e3f6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Neal Gompa <ngompa@centosproject.org>
+Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2021 19:25:55 -0400
+Subject: [PATCH] balance, mkfs: Disable raid56 modes
+
+The RAID 5/6 modes in Btrfs are not yet suitable for production use,
+so it is disabled.
+
+Signed-off-by: Neal Gompa <ngompa@centosproject.org>
+---
+ cmds/balance.c | 35 ++++-------------------------------
+ mkfs/main.c    |  4 ++--
+ 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/cmds/balance.c b/cmds/balance.c
+index 7abc69d9..ab86ff36 100644
+--- a/cmds/balance.c
++++ b/cmds/balance.c
+@@ -376,8 +376,7 @@ static const char * const cmd_balance_start_usage[] = {
+ 	"-d[filters]    act on data chunks",
+ 	"-m[filters]    act on metadata chunks",
+ 	"-s[filters]    act on system chunks (only under -f)",
+-	"-f             force a reduction of metadata integrity, or",
+-	"               skip timeout when converting to RAID56 profiles",
++	"-f             force a reduction of metadata integrity",
+ 	"--full-balance do not print warning and do not delay start",
+ 	"--background|--bg",
+ 	"               run the balance as a background process",
+@@ -400,7 +399,6 @@ static int cmd_balance_start(const struct cmd_struct *cmd,
+ 	int background = 0;
+ 	bool enqueue = false;
+ 	unsigned start_flags = 0;
+-	bool raid56_warned = false;
+ 	int i;
+ 
+ 	memset(&args, 0, sizeof(args));
+@@ -507,8 +505,6 @@ static int cmd_balance_start(const struct cmd_struct *cmd,
+ 
+ 	/* soft makes sense only when convert for corresponding type is set */
+ 	for (i = 0; ptrs[i]; i++) {
+-		int delay = 10;
+-
+ 		if ((ptrs[i]->flags & BTRFS_BALANCE_ARGS_SOFT) &&
+ 		    !(ptrs[i]->flags & BTRFS_BALANCE_ARGS_CONVERT)) {
+ 			error("'soft' option can be used only when converting profiles");
+@@ -518,33 +514,10 @@ static int cmd_balance_start(const struct cmd_struct *cmd,
+ 		if (!(ptrs[i]->flags & BTRFS_BALANCE_ARGS_CONVERT))
+ 			continue;
+ 
+-		if (!(ptrs[i]->target & BTRFS_BLOCK_GROUP_RAID56_MASK))
+-			continue;
+-
+-		if (raid56_warned)
+-			continue;
+-
+-		raid56_warned = true;
+-		printf("WARNING:\n\n");
+-		printf("\tRAID5/6 support has known problems and is strongly discouraged\n");
+-		printf("\tto be used besides testing or evaluation. It is recommended that\n");
+-		printf("\tyou use one of the other RAID profiles.\n");
+-		/*
+-		 * Override timeout by the --force option too, though it's
+-		 * otherwise used for allowing redundancy reduction.
+-		 */
+-		if (force) {
+-			printf("\tSafety timeout skipped due to --force\n\n");
+-			continue;
+-		}
+-		printf("\tThe operation will continue in %d seconds.\n", delay);
+-		printf("\tUse Ctrl-C to stop.\n");
+-		while (delay) {
+-			printf("%2d", delay--);
+-			fflush(stdout);
+-			sleep(1);
++		if (ptrs[i]->target & BTRFS_BLOCK_GROUP_RAID56_MASK) {
++			error("RAID5/6 support has known problems and is disabled.");
++			return 1;
+ 		}
+-		printf("\nStarting conversion to RAID5/6.\n");
+ 	}
+ 
+ 	if (!(start_flags & BALANCE_START_FILTERS) && !(start_flags & BALANCE_START_NOWARN)) {
+diff --git a/mkfs/main.c b/mkfs/main.c
+index 4d50bd25..5f66e6ae 100644
+--- a/mkfs/main.c
++++ b/mkfs/main.c
+@@ -1176,8 +1176,8 @@ int BOX_MAIN(mkfs)(int argc, char **argv)
+ 
+ 	if ((data_profile | metadata_profile) & BTRFS_BLOCK_GROUP_RAID56_MASK) {
+ 		features |= BTRFS_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_RAID56;
+-		warning("RAID5/6 support has known problems is strongly discouraged\n"
+-			"\t to be used besides testing or evaluation.\n");
++		error("RAID5/6 support has known problems and is disabled.");
++		exit(1);
+ 	}
+ 
+ 	if ((data_profile | metadata_profile) &
+-- 
+2.31.1
+
diff --git a/SPECS/btrfs-progs.spec b/SPECS/btrfs-progs.spec
index 5d61ec5..08c53d4 100644
--- a/SPECS/btrfs-progs.spec
+++ b/SPECS/btrfs-progs.spec
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ Source0:        https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/kdave/%{name}/%{n
 Source1:        https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/kdave/%{name}/%{name}-v%{version_no_tilde}.tar.sign
 Source2:        gpgkey-F2B41200C54EFB30380C1756C565D5F9D76D583B.gpg
 
+Patch1001:      1001-balance-mkfs-Disable-raid56-modes.patch
+
 BuildRequires:  gnupg2
 BuildRequires:  gcc, autoconf, automake, make
 BuildRequires:  e2fsprogs-devel
@@ -149,6 +151,7 @@ popd
 * Sun Jan 23 2022 Peter Georg <peter.georg@physik.uni-regensburg.de> - 5.14.2-1.1
 - Adapt for CentOS Kmods SIG
 - Disable zoned block device support
+- Disable RAID5/6
 
 * Sat Oct 09 2021 Neal Gompa <ngompa@fedoraproject.org> - 5.14.2-1
 - Update to 5.14.2